| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1322 | Back to the drawing board | Come up with an idea for an invention that still needs a bug ironed out. | H |
| 698 | Let's Get Personnel | Send us some humorously creative questions that a job interviewer would ask an applicant, or some questions it might be fun to ask the interviewer. | H |
| 664 | A Thousand Times?! No! | Come up with a new signature line for Russell Beland's -- or anyone else's -- e-mails. | H |
| 615 | Airy Persiflage | Write some jokes you'd like to hear in an airport announcement. | H |
| 510 | Universal Embarrassment | What would you like to see Miss Universe Pageant contestants asked live, on national TV? | H |
| 480 | In No Uncertain Terminations | Come up with a way to stop any unwanted overture in its tracks. | 3 |
| 472 | Water Stupid Idea | Propose bad ideas for saving water in the continuing drought. | I H H |
| 452 | Russellmania! | (1) Design one or more steps for a 12-step program for the recovering Invitationalaholic; (2) Propose a devious method by which we might lure Russell Beland back. | H |
| 440 | Picture This | What is going on in these cartoons? | H |
| 439 | No Can Do | Write signs of incompetence. | H H H 4 |
| 428 | No Rest for the Query | Answer any of the provided supposedly unanswerable questions in the voice of any famous person, living or dead. | H |
| 427 | Skinned | Come up with events that have a smaller chance of happening than the Redskins winning the Super Bowl. | H |
| 426 | Captions Courageous | Take any photograph or illustration from today's Washington Post and give it a more interesting caption. | H |
| 413 | Bland Ambition | Come up with one or more items from an underachiever's list of midlife resolutions. | 3 |
| 411 | X's and Oaths | Take any oath, pledge, declaration or slogan and update it. | H H 1 |
| 375 | Show Us Up | Combine the names of two existing TV shows (past or present) to make an entirely new show. Then, describe the show. | H |
| 351 | Dubya Fun | Take any well-known statement, expression, slogan, etc., and rewrite it the way Dubya might have said it. | H H H |
| 346 | Greasy Kids Tough | Take any news event from history, recent or ancient, large or small, and rewrite it in 100 words or fewer as it might have appeared in KidsPost. | H |
| 345 | Picture This | What is going on in these cartoons? | H |
| 342 | Plainly Ridiculous | Take any direct quotation from any article in today's Washington Post and translate it into "plain English. | H |
| 339 | Campaignful Developments | Come up with signs that a presidential campaign might be in trouble. | H H H H H |
| 338 | WHO WANTS TO WIN A TOILET? | Propose even greater depths of shameless, tasteless sleaze to which Fox TV is likely to sink after the noisome debacle of "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? | H 3 |
| 328 | NICE CAPADES | Send in some pleasant observation, in which you take a really cheerful or heartwarming view of something that less charitable people might conceivably see differently. | H 2 |
| 324 | A PREQUEL OPPORTUNITY OFFERING | Come up with a "prequel" to some classic film or work of literature. You must produce a title and a brief plot summary, which of course must take place prior to the main action of the original work. | 3 2 |
| 323 | THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD INVITATIONAL | Come up with not-quite-ready inventions, past or present. | W H |
| 322 | YOU NAME IT | Take a well known pair or group of names, extend one of them in some manner, and explain how the group dynamic changes. | H |
| 321 | INTERPRET THIS | Take any of the provided cartoons and come up with a matched pair of interpretations for what is happening. | H 2 |
| 316 | CALLING THE TOON | What are these things? | H |
| 313 | THE STYLE INVITATIONAL SOUVENIR SHOP | Come up with bad names for a new store at a mall. | W |
| 310 | IT'S LIKE THIS | Come up with really lame analogies. | H H H H H |
| 309 | A STINKING PILE OF THESES | Write an all-purpose first line or paragraph for any doctoral dissertation, designed to impress the heck out of academics. | H |
| 306 | YOUNGIAN THERAPY | Suggest ways in which the Style Invitational or any other Washington area institution can become more relevant to younger people. | H 3 1 |
| 305 | ASK BACKWARDS CMXVI2 | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 304 | TIME OF THE SIGNS | Come up with appropriate signage to appear outside any business or retail establishment in the Washington area, including government offices. | H 1 |
| 303 | BOOM TIMES | Come up with old and new concerns for the baby boom generation. | H |
| 302 | UNSTATED TRUTHS | Come up with lines that you'll never hear the provided people say. | H |
| 301 | PICTURE THIS | What is happening in these cartoons? | H H H H |
| 300 | A BRAND NEW CONTEST | Come up with celebrity-brand products. | H H H 3 |
| 297 | FREE FOR OIL | Take any article in today's paper, and write an outraged letter to the editor about it that totally misses the point, either by misreading a word or misunderstanding the topic. | H |
| 296 | BILL US LATER | Choose among the names of any of the newly elected U.S. senators or representatives and propose a bill they might sponsor. | H E |
| 292 | PAYING THE BILL | Propose appropriate punishments for President Clinton. | H H H 1 |
| 290 | THE WORLD THEORIES | Codify some of life's more populist theories. | H H 2 |
| 288 | PICTURE THIS | What is happening in these pictures? | H H H H H 2 |
| 287 | BEFORE AND AFTERMATH | Begin with a real name, append to it a word, name or expression that completes the bridge, and finally define the resulting phrase. | H |
| 284 | ASK BACKWARDS MCLXVII | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H H |
| 283 | UH-OH | Come up with "uh-oh" lines, statements that occur in the middle of a seemingly benign speech or conversation, suddenly alerting the listener that he is about to hear some bad news. | H |
| 282 | TAKING SNIDES | Take any story anywhere in today's Post and append to it a single snide observation, concerning either the headline or the text of the story. | 3 |
| 281 | CALCULATE THE ODDS | Tell us which of the two provided items does not belong with the other two, and why. | H H H |
| 280 | EXPRESSING IT NICELY | Come up with colorful expressions for any of the six provided activities, to make them sound a little less tawdry. | H H E 4 |
| 276 | SPIT THE DIFFERENCE | Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items. | H |
| 272 | PICTURE THIS | What is happening in these cartoons? | H H H |
| 271 | YOGI BEARER | Come up with new Yogi-isms, which seem to make sense, but collapse like a soufflé when you poke it a little | H |
| 269 | SIGNS, AND THE TIMES | Come up with new, helpful signage for downtown streets. You must state the problem, and propose the sign to rectify it. | H H H H |
| 266 | DEFINITELY WEIRD | Take any word from the dictionary and redefine it. | H |
| 264 | ASK BACKWARDS | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 262 | CAMPAIGN FOR ONE | Design a line for Niels Hoven to deliver in his campaign for a student government office that will wake up a snoozing audience. | H H H H |
| 258 | IT'S A BIRD. IT'S A PAIN. | Choose one or more of the provided super powers and tell us what you would do with it. | H |
| 248 | STICKER SCHLOCK | Come up with a message for our new, mildly sought-after Style Invitational bumper sticker, something that summarizes the grandeur and dignity of this stupid contest. | W |
| 240 | ADDING INSULT | Come up with elegant insults directed at any famous person, living or dead, such as the real encomiums above. | H |
| 208 | SEND IN THE CLONES | Suggest questions a commission to investigate the moral, legal and practical question raised by cloning might consider. | H H |
| 204 | DOUBLE EXPRESSO | Take any well-known colorful expression, and modernize it. | H |